Needle-holder.



WIJ. LEACH. NEEDLE HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 24. |911.

1,262,523, Patented Apr. 9, 1918.

TINTE@ STATES TATENT FFTQE.

MARY Janin Liiiicrnoii Nonwiori, CONNECTICUT.

NEEDLE-HOLDER.

Speeieaton of Letters Patent.`

Patented npr. e, 1918.

Application mea February 24, 1917. serial No. 150,680.

To' all whom t may concern.' v

. Be it knownA that I, MARY Janin Linien, a citizen of the United States, residing at Norwich, in the county of New London and State of Connecticut, have invented certain useful Improvements in Needle-Holders, of which the following'is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

The present invention has reference, generally to improvements in that class of inventions known as buckles, buttons andl toprovide means for holding it in a positionin readiness for use when needed.

It is the principal aim and object of this invention therefore to provide an improved pin adapted forremovable engagement with the garment of the user for removably receiving the hooked end of a crochet needle for maintaining the needle when not in use, the pin being so vpositioned on the garment that the needle may be readily removed therefrom when itis desired to use the saine.

It is an additional objectof this invention to provide improved attaching means for the tubular holding bar so as to prevent the bar from moving while the hooked end of the needle is being inserted therein.

More particularly, the present invention embraces thel provision of a crochet needle holder of such construction that it can be used in the capacity of the usual bar pin when it is not desired to use the device when crocheting.

Among the other aims and objects of the present invention may be recited the provision of a device of the characterv described with a view to compactness, and in which the number of parts are few, the construction simple, the cost of production low, and the'eiiiciency high.

Other objects as well as the nature, characteristic features'and scope of this invention will be more readily apparent from the following description taken in coiinection with thel accompanying drawings and pointed out in the'claim, forming a part of this specification.

The preferred embodiment of the present invention is clearly illustrated in the-accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a perspective showing the in-` vention applied to a portion of a garmentv such as a shirtwaist, the crochet needle being shown in position in the tubular holding bar.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged longitudinal section of the device.

Fig. 3 is a transverse section taken on lineB- of Fig. 2. V

Fig. 4 is a transverse section taken online 44 'of Fig. 2 in the direction-in which the `arrow points.l y Similar characters of' reference are' em- 'ployed in all of the above described views.

to indicate corresponding parts.

Referring now, more particularly, to the accompanying drawings I provide a tubular bar l having one end closed and the opposite end open, the edges of the open end being beveled inwardly as indicated by the numeral 2 to facilitate the insertion of the hooked end of a crochet needle 3A therein when it is not desired to use the needle.

With a view toward providing means forv attaching the bar to 'an article of. apparel such as a shirtwa'ist in a manner to prevent unduemovement of the tubular bar when in an attached position I have provided a main pin shank 4 the inner end of which terminates in an ear 5 which is pivotally mounted between the spaced ears 6 integral with the outer surface of the bar adjacent the open end, by means of a pivotpin 7. rIhe pointed end 8 of the pin shank is reinovably engageable with a hook 9 carried by the outer surface of the tubular bar 1 adj acent the closed end. An auxiliary pin shank same parallel plane which plane is also in nal axis of the bar.

8 and 12 of the pin shank should bein'- serted in the article 13 in the manner illus trated in Fig. l, that is both of the pin Shanks should be engaged in portionsof the article and subsequent to the engagement ot the pin Shanks with the article the pointed end S is engaged in the hook 9 so as to maintain the tubular bar l in a substantially rigid position and in spaced relation to the article and also in a vertical position so that the hooked end of the needle 3 may be readily inserted in the bar 1. By theprovision of the auxiliary pin shankl it is readily apparent that the usual swinging movement which would vbe occasioned igt' only one pin shank were employed7 is obviate'd. It the owner oiE the pin isl not crocheting the needle 3 of course may be removed and owing' to the construction of the scription and accompanying drawings coin-`r prehend only the general and preferred embodiment of my invention and that variousV minor changes .in detail of construction, proportion and arrangement of the parts may be made within the scope of the appen'ded claim and without sacrificing any of the advantages of my invention. v

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and vdesire to vsecure by Letters-Patent, is:- y Arneedle holder comprising .a tubularbar having one end closed and the other end vopen and adapted to receive the hooked end of a crocheting needle, a hook integral with havingthe inner end integral with the main pin shank adjacent the ear and thev outer lend offset and pointed and arranged in spaced parallel relation with the mainV pink Y M. -JANE LEACH.

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' "Washington, D. C. 

